The Philosophy of the State In Plato's Book of Laws

Abstract

This research sheds light on basic aspects of the idea of the state as it appeared in the dialogue of laws that Plato wrote at the end of his life and died before completing it, a dialogue that captured the interest of researchers in Platonic utopia, in terms of the clear difference formed by the concept of the state in it from the exaggerated ideal that Plato fabricated it in many of his previous dialogues, especially the Republic.

The state that Plato talks about in "Laws" (despite its idealistic tendency) is closer to reality and implementation than the state that appeared in the "Republic". As the most prominent Greek philosopher became more mature and presented solutions from the reality of the Greek nation and some neighboring nations to the problems that he saw obstructing the establishment of a virtuous and just state in which prudence prevails, these criteria have always remained the starting point for his political and moral thought, whether in the republic, laws, or all his other works.